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Abstract: Marlowe racconta di aver avuto l'incarico di sostituire un capitano fluviale ucciso dagli indigeni nell'Africa centrale. Si imbarca su una nave francese e, giunto alla stazione della compagnia, vede come gli indigeni muoiano di stenti e di sfruttamento. Dopo un lungo viaggio di duecento miglia sul fiume rintraccia Kurtz, un leggendario agente capace di procurare più avorio di ogni altro. In realtà Kurtz, uomo solo e ormai folle, è quasi morente. Viene convinto a partire, ma muore sul battello che lo trasporta, dopo aver pronunciato un discorso che non può nascondere la tenebra del suo cuore.

Abstract: Tertuliano Mximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened by noises in his apartment, he goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video. He watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen. He sleeps badly. Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he roots out the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality" (The Boston Globe). Saramago displays his remarkable talent in this haunting tale of appearance versus reality.

Abstract: it's been ages since Molly last heard from her mum, Ro, and she's worried. Not that Ro hasn't done this before - since the divorce, Molly hasn't known what to expect from her mother. if only things could go back to the way they were before Ro disappeared and her dad remarried . . . but then she wouldn't have her half-brother Locky, and now she can't imagine her life without him. When a letter finally does arrive, Molly learns her mum's made some big changes . . . but there's an even bigger surprise in store for all of them . . .

Abstract: These deeply empathic and beautifully crafted stories explore the interwoven lives and histories of the people of Tenney's Landing, a small Pennsylvania river town. Catherine Tudish has assembled an array of richly textured characters whose paths intersect in ways both incidental and intimate as they learn that their capacity for hope and forgiveness is greater than they thought.In "Where the Devil Lost His Blanket," Elizabeth Tenney embarks on an unexpected journey to return the remains of her recently deceased neighbor, a woman she barely knew, to South America. "The Dowry" portrays a woman, who, faced with her father's fatal illness, finds herself confronting the tragedy and betrayal that drove her from home. The title character of "Jordan's Stand," a gruff old farmer, forms an unlikely friendship with a young widow as he tries to teach her how to hunt. In "The Springhouse," a woman finds the strength to leave her husband and return to her parents' home, where she becomes the unofficial guardian of all manner of community secrets.Wise, resonant, and exquisitely tender, these stories capture moments of change -- upheaval, renewal, and the quieter revolutions inspired by the small eventfulness of everyday life. Tudish's remarkable debut illuminates the shared human condition through the particulars of a small American town.

Abstract: "A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning, and an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari - two seemingly unrelated cases for Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at Vigata police headquarters. But when Montalbano discovers that the couple and the murdered young man lived in the same building, his investigation stumbles onto Sicily's brutal "New Mafia," which leads him down a path more evil and far-reaching than any he has been on before."--BOOK JACKET.

Abstract: Set against the backdrop of the Millennium celebrations and Britain's increasingly compromised role in America's war against terrorism, The Closed Circle lifts the lid on an era in which politics and presentation, ideology and the media have become virtually indistinguishable. Darkly comic, hugely engaging, and compulsively readable, it is the much-anticipated follow-up to Jonathan Coe's bestselling novel The Rotters' Club, and reintroduces us to the characters first encountered in that book. But whereas The Rotters' Club was a novel of innocence, The Closed Circle is its opposite: a novel of experience.

Abstract: Edizione integrale in lingua inglese.

Abstract: Piccolo dramma che - come ha scritto Croce -sembra nato da un sorriso tanto è delicato, sottile, aereo, è uno dei testi shakespeariani più frequentemente rappresentati. Il tema è l'amore, con le sue zone buie e le sue armonie conquistate faticosamente. Perfetta e poetica fusione tra il mondo fantastico delle allegorie rinascimentali e quello amoroso dei romanzi cavaliereschi, ha una struttura complessa - sono quattro gli intrecci che si dipanano nei suoi cinque atti - e una stupefacente ricchezza di significazioni e interne implicazioni. I movimenti e le passioni degli innamorati che vi agiscono si avviluppano in nodi assurdi e si dipanano d'incanto, disegnando gli arabeschi d'un sogno apparentemente insensato, in realtà governato dal capriccio d'Amore.

Abstract: One of the richest periods in the history of Marvel's resident Thunder God comes your way in this grand collection of space-spanning sagas and time-travel tales! Thrill to Thor's descent into Pluto's dark realm, the first appearance of Firelord, Galactus' battle with Ego the Living Planet, Loki's invasion of Earth, the search for an errant Odin and a trip into the end of time courtesy of Zarrko the Tomorrow Man! Guest starring Hercules and the Olympians, the Egyptian pantheon, the Warriors Three, the Avengers, Ulik the Rock Troll, the Absorbing Man, and more! Collecting THOR (1966) #221-247.

Abstract: Oxforshire, Inghilterra. Estate 1956. Figlio di maggiordomo, e maggiordomo egli stesso, l'anziano Stevens ha trascorso gran parte della sua vita in una antica dimora inglese di proprietà di Lord Darlington, gentiluomo che egli ha servito con devozione per trent'anni. Con altrettanta fedeltà egli si accinge ora a entrare al servizio del nuovo proprietario di quella dimora, l'americano Mr. Farraday, desideroso di acquisire, assieme ed attraverso la casa, anche quanto di antico, per storie e tradizione, a essa si accompagni. Ed è su invito del nuovo padrone che Stevens intraprende, per la prima volta nella sua vita, un viaggio in automobile nella circostante campagna inglese. Questo viaggio si risolverà in un inquietante viaggio dentro se stessi.